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<blockquote data-quote="Cap'n Kobold" data-source="post: 7162370" data-attributes="member: 6802951">&quot;Gods&quot; (as in the Sovereign Host + Dark Six) don't objectively exist, although almost all the inhabitants of Eberron believe in them. Sources of divine power that can be the deity of a cleric, however, do.&nbsp;The Silver Flame is most definitely not monotheistic. It does not deny the existence of the Sovereign Host. The greatest figure in the human side of the religion was a worshipper of one of them.The source of the Silver Flame is reasonably well known: it is a gestalt of the souls of the Coatl race, who sacrificed themselves to imprison the fiends at the end of the Age of Demons. It is a force that exists to defend against supernatural evil, and will sometimes empower a person who seeks to do that. Followers believe that righteous souls join with the flame to strengthen it when they die.&nbsp;Because it is the faith of the user that empowers them. None of the major religions in Eberron conflict about the existence of each other. Even the Blood of Vol might believe that all the gods are evil, but it still believes that they exist.None of this means that a DM can't decide to mix things up a bit, and decree that there is a single divine power that empowers all faith-based magic and phenomena, outside of its users. It could derive from the spirit of Siberys, or some divine infinite.I think that you might find this: <a href="https://manifest.zone/04-religion/" target="_blank">https://manifest.zone/04-religion/</a>&nbsp; interesting to listen to. It touches on a number of points that have been discussed.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Cap'n Kobold, post: 7162370, member: 6802951"] "Gods" (as in the Sovereign Host + Dark Six) don't objectively exist, although almost all the inhabitants of Eberron believe in them. Sources of divine power that can be the [I][B]deity[/B][/I] of a cleric, however, do. The Silver Flame is most definitely not monotheistic. It does not deny the existence of the Sovereign Host. The greatest figure in the human side of the religion was a worshipper of one of them. The source of the Silver Flame is reasonably well known: it is a gestalt of the souls of the Coatl race, who sacrificed themselves to imprison the fiends at the end of the Age of Demons. It is a force that exists to defend against supernatural evil, and will sometimes empower a person who seeks to do that. Followers believe that righteous souls join with the flame to strengthen it when they die. Because it is the faith of the user that empowers them. None of the major religions in Eberron conflict about the existence of each other. Even the Blood of Vol might believe that all the gods are evil, but it still believes that they exist. None of this means that a DM can't decide to mix things up a bit, and decree that there is a single divine power that empowers all faith-based magic and phenomena, outside of its users. It could derive from the spirit of Siberys, or some divine infinite. I think that you might find this: [url]https://manifest.zone/04-religion/[/url] interesting to listen to. It touches on a number of points that have been discussed. [/QUOTE]

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